The Robert Heinlein Interview and Other Heinleiniana

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Pulpless.Com, 1999 - Literary Criticism - 200 pages
In 1975, Robert A. Heinlein was sixty-six, at the height of his literary career; J. Neil Schulman was twenty and hadn't yet started his first novel. Because he was looking for a way to meet his idol, Schulman wangled an assignment from the New York Daily News--at the time the largest circulation newspaper in the U.S.--to interview Heinlein for its Sunday Book Supplement. The resulting taped interview lasted three-and-a-half hours. This turned out to be the longest interview Heinlein ever granted, and the only one in which he talked freely and extensively about his personal philosophy and ideology.

"The Robert Heinlein Interview" contains Heinlein you won't find anywhere else--even in Heinlein's own "Expanded Universe." If you wnat to know what Heinlein had to say about UFO's, life after death, epistemology, or libertarianism, this interview is the only source available.

Also included in this collection are articles, reviews, and letters that J. Neil Schulman wrote about Heinlein, including the original article written for The Daily News, about which the Heinleins wrote Schulman that it was, "The best article--in style, content, and accuracy--of the many, many written about him over the years."

This book is must-reading for any serious student of Heinlein, or any reader seeking to know him better.

 

Contents

Foreword by Brad Linaweaver
11
A Tribute to Robert A Heinlein
17
A Letter to Joel Gotler
23
Robert A Heinlein
29
Review of Revolt in 2100
41
Review of Time Enough For Love
47
A Letter to Virginia and Robert Heinlein
57
Introduction or The Giant Chutzpah Strikes Again
71
The Robert Heinlein Interview
81
A Letter to Brad Linaweaver
187
Prometheus Hall of Fame Acceptance Speech for Methuselahs
193
Requiem
199
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